A one-day six-hour workshop, in which seven participants from CULP-NGO and teachers from local schools of Newel block of Rajasthan's Tonk district took part, resulted in a Coach-Assess-Remediate-Master (CARM) model of support to rural girls for upcoming board examination in March, 2017.

"Since
rural government schools' girl students in Rajasthan had not been
performing well in science, maths and English, it was thought to
provide them academic support through the NGO sector for coming three
months.

In
Focus

For
this, a workshop to crystallize a model of coaching was envisaged.
Now, a model of coaching, CARM, has been crystallized with four steps
through which the academic support project will be implemented,"
said the key resource person Dr Lalit Kishore while concluding the
workshop.

In the workshop,
learning templates to deal with hard spots of learning were developed
both to coach and chart of the progress of the students. The project
will be evaluated through a before-and-after study design, informed
Rama Sharma of CULP.

The
workshop suggested that the coaching syllabus of 3 to 5 hard-spots of
learning per chapter should be identified to be taken up in coming
three months with diagnostic weekly testing and remediation. It was
decided that coaching would be done for all the seven days and
Sundays will be devoted to remedial teaching so that no learning gaps
are left leading better performance.